JKF?s First Stage: Denial
Kalalau's Korner JKF?s First Stage: DenialThe memorandum summarizing the recent GUFSSA meeting with President designate Jane K. Fernandes suggests that she is a grim leader whose difficult enterprise was pronounced DUA?dead upon arrival. JKF claimed that the student protest last May had caught her unawares. How was it possible? From her appointment as provost six years ago to her [...]
Thu, Sep 28 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

350: Concrete Audism
Deaf in the City 350: Concrete AudismWhat are Audistic behaviors? My new book of the week is Glickman's "Mental Health Care of Deaf People: A Culturally Affirmative Approach." This awesome book has a list of abusive responses to deaf/Deaf people by hearing people which I would like to examine. I want to help further the discourse on Audism currently happening at Gallaudet and [...]
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A Divine Lunch
Karen In early September, I headed out to the Marriott hotel to sign the contract for the IL Hands & Voices Mom's Night Inn. Across the street from the hotel was my favorite restaurant, Maggiano's. A family that I worked with generously gave me a gift certificate so I decided to treat myself to lunch. Armed with a stack of magazines, I was looking forward to enjoying a [...]
Wed, Sep 27 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Heartfelt Proof of Deaf Identity
Drolz Uncensored A hypochondriac's behavior offers proof that there is indeed such a thing as Deaf identity
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Blog Post of the Week: Raphael J. St. Johns
Jamie Berke (About.com) Last spring, the Gallaudet protesters were saying that the protest would have a financial impact on Gallaudet University. If the open letter to the Gallaudet community by Raphael J. St....
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DeafRead Bookmarks!
DeafRead Human Editor Before I introduce DeafRead’s newest feature, I want to thank Chad Taylor, a good friend, for providing feedback which resulted in a tighter “look” for DeafRead. This is the actual image file he sent me to illustrate what he meant. Notice the grey columns on both sides. Also many thanks to Mösdeux, for linking to [...]
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To get what we want?.
What matters deafness of the ears, One thing which may stand the deaf employee in good stead, but one which is also too often overlooked by employers, is the simple fact that the typical deaf worker (like Erin in her essay below) is usually more attentive and focussed during work. We have to, else we might miss out on information. Now in [...] [...]
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Analysis of Dr Jane Fernandes's Interview with FSSA
Mishka Zena Gally FSSA News » Meeting with Dr. Fernandes When asked for her thoughts about the issues, concerns, and conditions that led to the protests in May, 2006, Dr. Fernandes?s responses conveyed the impression that she did not have a clear idea as to the actual root issues behind the protest, the long-festering consequences of racism and audism on campus. It's my [...]
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The Power of Playing in ASL
Kalalau's Korner The Power of Playing in ASLASL is the most complexly intelligent and powerful language we the Deaf have. When playing in ASL, there are no rules. Playing in ASL brings out all the language tools we have at our disposal. Playing in ASL is not only fun, it?s one of the most important ways we can nurture our language development. Each of us is unique. We each have our [...]
Wed, Sep 27 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Clueless Jane
RidorLIVE Results From The Challenge: I posted an image of three individuals as a way to test my theory whether if one can tell who’s hearing or Deaf in this entry. I was surprised to get more than 70 comments in less than 15 hours. My hunch was right after all ? 23 individuals got [...]
Wed, Sep 27 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Meeting with Dr. Fernandes
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Sept. 26, 2006To:  FSSA MembershipFr:  FSSA Faculty members who met with Dr. Jane Fernandes:        Ben Bahan        MJ Bienvenu        Carol Erting        Jeff Lewis        Laurene Simms        Lillian Tompkins        Cheryl WuRe:  Impressions from our meetingA group of seven diverse FSSA faculty members who have been involved in the coalition from its beginning met [...]
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Letter to I. King Jordan
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Dr. I. King Jordan President President?s Office Rm CO208 Gallaudet University 800 Florida Ave., NE Washington D.C., 20002Dear Dr. Jordan,It was with much dismay that I read your memo of June 28, 2006, in which you address limits and controls on campus expression.  Although many becoming older, my memories of the events leading up to your ...
Wed, Sep 27 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

An open letter to the Gallaudet Community
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition My name is Raphael J. St. Johns.   I am a Hard-of-Hearing Alunimnus of Gallaudet, having graduated from Gallaudet University two times (Class of 1987, G-2000).    I consider Gallaudet to be my home.   My mother was a Special Education teacher, and as such, she loved Deaf people. I remember my mother taking me ...
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It's "Jericho" Time!
Tayler Mayer Last week, you showed a lot of interest in CBS’s premiere of “Jericho”. As you remember, Shoshannah Stern, a deaf actress, is on the cast. Immediately following the show, I polled to see what you thought of the first show. Of those of you who voted, 25 didn’t see the show. That’s understandable. Check your [...]
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To get what we want?.
DeafDC.com I was just thinking about juanita’s blog and how she feels that people in the deaf community are spoiled and expect too much. I beg to differ. Simply because of most of my deaf friends, we had to work even harder to prove ourselves. When I was younger, I did go to MSD & i [...]
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Deaf Celebrity of the Moment: Shoshanah Stern
Jamie Berke (About.com) Her presence on the cast of "Jericho" and an occasional role on another show, is making Shoshanah Stern the deaf celebrity of the moment, if not the fall season. ...
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Diversity at Gallaudet University is racist
Kalalau's Korner Diversity at Gallaudet University is racistI am half white (Full disclosure: I was born to Indonesian father and Dutch mother but I look brown, neither Indonesian nor Dutch) and I think diversity is racist. It is racist because it presumes that the color of an African American or the surname of a Hispanic defines her thinking, that somehow she will bring something [...]
Wed, Sep 27 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Development Language in Early Childhood
Patty Transcript-This is not word for word, but basic concept of the video. I am currently a student at TSU, Texas State University. One of the class I am taking is Language development in Early Childhood. This book, (showed the image of the book), it is a good book. I was able to understand the concept of how the language develops in hearing kids, since it is a hearing [...]
Tue, Sep 26 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

So loud I am deaf
Jean Paraphrased:Deaf people have the tendency to be louder due to the fact they can't hear their own sounds they create and regulate them.I have to agree to disagree.In truth, it's infinitely simple-minded to place the blame on deafness squarely. Plenty of neighbors commonly called the police on young hearing college students or hearing music groups for noise disturbance [...]
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Beware of Allness: Inside JKF?s Mind
Kalalau's Korner Beware of Allness: Inside JKF?s MindTwo roads diverged?. In the August 2006 issue of Education Update Online, President designate Jane K. Fernandes is quoted: ?All deaf people should have the chance to learn all languages and forms of communication that they will need when they grow up.? All deaf people? All languages? It is difficult to give an exact figure of the [...]
Tue, Sep 26 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

2006 Deaf Awareness Week: An Introspective AffairClick...
Triomphe L'oeil 2006 Deaf Awareness Week: An Introspective AffairClick Here (01:12 Vlog - Captioned)
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Moving Day for Us
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) We are moving out of our office on the Main Street this week into my home office. We simply did not have enough funds coming in to support the overhead of having an office open as well as the fact that we are working on something really positive and will change some things. Yup, we WILL build world's first sign language friendly town in South Dakota. That will not [...]
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Excluding the Deaf from the Gospel?
DeafDC.com I just attended a rally this morning at the Federal Communications Commission to protest the exemption of over 300 television programs simply because they are produced by nonprofit organizations and captioning the programs could cause “significant difficulties for these entities.” Representative Edward J. Markey (MA) said about the recent FCC [...]
Tue, Sep 26 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Get your Deaf News at DeafRead
DeafRead Human Editor DeafRead is expanding into News syndication. Leveraging the same technology which powers DeafRead’s blog syndication, we’re able to easily list deaf-related news articles at DeafRead! We are keeping Blog posts and News articles separate. DeafRead is all about reading deaf stuff, may the source be blogs or news publications. “Deaf” is the the [...]
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More About Shirley Shultz-Myers
RidorLIVE How To Play With CIs? Not a long time ago, I was told that a Deaf mother was pissed off when her ex-husband who is hearing decided to insert the cochlear implant on their son. In fact, the Deaf mother walked to the fridge where there are alphabet magnets on the wall of the refrigerator, she [...]
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